1. A U D I O E F F E C T S

2. A U T O - T U N E
Created by Antares Audio Technologies Auto-Tune
uses a phase vocoder to correct pitch in vocal
and instrumental performances. Auto-tune has
the ability to disguise off-key notes and mistakes
allowing singers to create a false illusion, that
their singing well and in tune

3. This effect is one lately commonly used in the hip-hop
industry by rappers and MCs such as Kanye West,
Lil Wayne and T-pain, for the main reason that it
gives an interesting twist to their one-tone vocals in
their music

4. AUDIO COMPRESSION
The Basic idea of audio compression is to
lower the louder parts of the song to
decrees the dynamics, this then makes to
parts of the song that are too harsh sound
softer, and the parts that were too low
more audible.

5. Compression is used in the following
example.

6. D E L A Y
The delay sound effect records an input signal to
an audio storage medium, then it plays it back
after a period of time. It can create the sound of
a repeating echo, by either playing your
recorded sound back multiple times, or played
back into the recording again.

7. Delay is used in the song by U2, you can
here it in the guitar. Its properly most
famous in this song.

8. D I S T O R T I O N
In order to create a dirty, fussy, hard
pounding sound to your audio, you would
properly use distortion. The distortion
sound effect does this compressing the
peaks of a musical instrument's sound
wave and adding overtones.

9. Though The Beatles did not invent distortion, they
did bring it to the masses in their song
‘Revolution’ taken from the album White Album.
This effect is most commonly used in the genres
of Pop, Rock and Metal. But it is also used in
some hip-hop songs as recognised in rapper
‘Drakes’ song ‘Karaoke’

10. G A T E (N O I S E)
an extreme form of expansion noise
gating is. Signals below a certain point
are either heavily weakened or
eliminated completely. This leaves only
higher level signals and removes
background noise when the signal is
not present.

11. Phil Collins is a good example of noise
gating in his hit single ‘In The Air Tonight’,
the noise gating in this song is best heard
on in the drums.

12. E Q U A L I Z A T I
O N
When your boosting or reducing the levels
of various frequencies in a signal you are
using the sound effect of Equalization.
For Example, equalization can mean
turning the bass/treble controls up or
down.

13. An Equalizer is used in the following
examples.

14. C H O R U S
The chorus effect is designed to make a
signal sound like it was produced by
multiple similar sources. For example, if
you add the chorus effect to a solo
singer's voice, the results sounds like a
chorus.

15. Chorus is one of the most common effects
and is used in mostly all genres, it is
most evident in the following examples.

16. P H A S E R
Phasing is a sweeping/whooshing
effect often used in music. The
effect is created by mixing the
original signal with another
version of itself which has been
phase-shifted.

17. This results in various out-of-phase
interactions over time which gives the
sweeping effect used in this example of
‘Voices’ by Disturbed but only in the intro.

18. T A L K B O X
A talk box is an effects unit that allows a
musician to modify the sound of a
musical instrument. The musician
controls the modification by lip syncing,
or by changing the shape of their mouth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_box

19. The most famous example of the talk box
comes from one of Bon Jovi’s famous hits
‘Living On A Prayer’, where the talk box is
used in the intro

20. S U R R O U N D S O U N D
Surround sound takes in a range of
techniques (such as for enriching
the sound duplicated quality of an audio
source with audio channels reproduce
by additional speakers. .

21. The first documented use of surround sound was in 1940, for
the Disney studio's animated film Fantasia, now its an
effect used in must musical audios including Madonna’s hit
song ‘Sorry’

22. T H E E N D